Re: Quick note before hitting the road...

Gah, that disk sounds like a blast :)

Jim

Kim Johnson wrote:

> " VOYAGER LASERDISC -- DETAILS
>
> -- Voyager-Criterion issued a remastered laserdisc of
> DR. STRANGELOVE
> in 1992. This version was struck from Kubrick's
> personal print of the
> film (one generation removed from the original
> negative). The disc
> jacket reads: "The film was shot using in-camera
> mattes with
> alternating aspect ratios, between 1.66:1 and
> 1.33:1. A new digital
> film-to-tape transfer was created using a 35mm
> duplicate negative and
> 35mm 3 track magnetic master."
>
> The different mattes for the film's different
> aspect ratios are
> probably best noticeable at the top of the frame,
> in the shots where
> Major Kong puts on his Stetson hat. Also, as Kong
> rides the bomb, the
> bomb can be seen jumping "over" the background
> matte plate.
>
> The Criterion disc also includes a wealth of
> materials outlining
> the civil-defense plans of the early 1960s,
> including still frames of
> various pamphlets, the famous short "Duck and
> Cover," and an early
> "video" of George McCulvey's "My Teenage Fallout
> Queen." There is
> also a British Film Board-approved trailer
> advertising Strangelove,
> which -- unique for its day -- includes photos of
> Kubrick himself.
> Best of all is an account of the film's laser
> remastering, as well as
> a frame-by-frame representation of an early
> STRANGELOVE script. The
> cover of the Criterion disk was also designed by
> Kubrick.
>
> An early draft of the script -- written by Kubrick,
> before Southern
> was brought in -- can be read frame-by-frame on the
> Voyager-Criterion
> laserdisc. In this early draft, the film is
> presented as a recovered
> record found by aliens on a dead planet called
> Earth. (The opening
> credits describe a "Micro-Galaxy-Meteor" logo with
> a squalling alien
> head. Amusing, in light of the stylized MGM logo
> used in 2001.) This
> script is clearly less than the final product; a
> great deal of the
> final film's better lines clearly came from
> Southern's later
> contributions, including General Ripper's "bodily
> fluids" obsessions.
> Although there is a character named Turgidson, a
> character named
> "Buck" Schmuck gets most of what eventually wound
> up as Turgidson
> dialogue. (Interesting note: in this early script,
> one General is
> named "Toejam." So is a Marine in FULL METAL
> JACKET.)
>
>
> --(B.S.)"
>
> and, remember, kong riding the bomb is a direct steal
> from ole whats-his-name's 'catcher'.
>
> kim
>
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Received on Fri Aug 8 21:05:12 2003